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Kelly Corrigan has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I envy my dad and his faith. I envy all people who have someone to beseech, who know where they're going, who…
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And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing…
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That to fly requires chaotic, sometimes even violent passages--becomes a metaphor for all of life's most meaningful endeavors.
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Raising people is not some lark. It's serious work with serious repercussions. It's air-traffic control. You can't step out for a minute;…
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The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she…
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I didn't know adults could be changed. I thought they were finished pieces, baked through and kiln dried.
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Appreciation is the purest,strongest form of love. It is the outward-bound kind of love that asks for nothing and gives everything.
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He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception…
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Even when all the paperwork-a marriage license, a notarized deed, two birth certificates, and seven years of tax returns-clearly indicates you're an…
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We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction.
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It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once…
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We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
— John Stuart Mill
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The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all…
— Aldous Huxley
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Teach me, 0 God, not to torture myself, not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection, but rather teach…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has…
— Albert Einstein
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Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
— Nigel Calder
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is…
— Remy de Gourmont
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I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving…
— Shirley Manson
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I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
— Burt Lancaster
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In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
— Barry Lopez
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Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a…
— Victor Hugo
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Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set…
— Russell Kirk
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Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort
— Daniel Goleman
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